false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255723320m/3241366.jpg 3241366 3 Using magic means it uses you back - and every spell exacts a price from the user. Some people, however, get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent, then Allison Beckstrom's job is to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune and the strings that come with it, but when she finds a boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father's signature all over it she is thrown back into the world of his black magic. 3276073 book 4 11 2008 Magic to the Bone (Allie Beckstrom, Book 1) total:308|5:54|4:127|3:87|2:31|1:9| 308 1110 627 94 5 7 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 16 15:57:22 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 13:48:59 -0700 2009
Allie knows ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 00:36:41 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 00:37:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon Jan 05 21:11:07 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 21:13:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 10:14:29 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 11:18:11 -0800 2009 Inkdeath, I needed something fast-paced and exciting to read. Urban fantasy is good for that, but I have been feeling a little bit burnt out on vampires, werewolves, and fey---so what's an eager fantasy reader to do? Along comes Devon Monk...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 00:29:28 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 00:29:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 06:26:05 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 06:32:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 14:10:01 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 14:34:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 true true Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 08:44:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 09:05:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false true Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 11:12:26 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 21:15:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 04:01:55 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 04:10:54 -0700 2009 sequels or reaction scenes as well as scenes...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:30:35 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:31:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 08:14:08 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:11:47 -0800 2009 1
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It doesn't. It was misplaced.

But the rest of the book I was baffled as to why the heroine was a heroine and just spent page after page wa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 22:03:51 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 18:17:45 -0800 2008 1 Harry Potter where the magic is completely separate from the real w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 16:16:58 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 16:19:17 -0700 2009
When Allie is called to track a magic user, she tracks the bad magic to her father. Then, her father is murdered, and Allie becomes the main suspect...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 18:23:35 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 15:14:22 -0700 2009
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